Custom-blended perfumesmade by you and for you

﻿What is essen﻿ti﻿al﻿is i﻿nvisible to the eye...~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Essense was featured on WMUR's NH Chronicle, February 7th, 2017; August 10th, 2017; and February 6th, 2018!

Here is the link to 1stwhole show.If you want to watch the Essense segment,it begins at 2.25 minutes.

Photo by Jay Philbrick

Photo by Sarah Dennehy

Photo by Sarah Dennehy

The Essense Experience

The “Essense experience” is a journey of wonder led by your nose! Perfume can be as mysteriously complex or as joyfully simple as you'd like to make it. There are no rules, except Coco Chanel's: “fabulous.”

Perfumery is a traditional old-world craft using art and science, inspiration and magic. With over 27 years of experience in this trade, as well as a Master's degree in Behavioral Science, I consider myself both an alchemist of scents and a translator of memory and emotion. I love my vocation as a perfumer because it allows me to work with people in a connected interpersonal way, while guiding them on a mini-tour of creative self-discovery, via the sensory aspect of scent and smell.

Because of the intense connection between the sense of smell and memory, making perfume can be intensely emotional and uniquely personal. I love hearing the memories and stories that my customers are willing to share, as well as creating perfumes and therefore new memories for them.

Essense features pure perfume oils and fragrance composite perfume oils, collected from all over the globe, as well as many natural essential oils for aromatherapy. Essense has created many original trade-mark perfumes, available only here. Additionally, Essense carries a selection of “ready made” designer-type fragrance oils that can be applied directly to pulse points, or further customized.

Essense is the original "indie" perfumery of New England. With over 550 perfume oils available, you are invited to sniff out every possibility of combinations, while creating your own unique signature scent. Prices range from $15 to $200 depending on how many perfume "notes" are blended together into a bottle. When stored properly a bottle of this high quality Essense perfume will last for years. Nothing evokes memory as quickly as scent. Essense is happiness in a bottle!

Whether you come to create, watch, or just relax, your visit to ﻿﻿Essense Parfumeri﻿e﻿ will be an occasion to remember.

I had a personal fragrance created by Essense almost 27 years ago, and I still use it! Not only has it become my signature scent and an element of my identity, but the oils last so long that its makes an economical choice for fragrance. Tamsan is the sweetest and so enthusiastic about what she does, she's made re-ordering my oils easy and effortless. She will help create a blend uniquely for you, or you can choose from Essense's delicious custom blends. Perfection! ~ Darcie S. NY, NY

Thanks to my magnificent ﻿Essense﻿ customers for their enthusiasm and loyalty, some for over 45 years! Thanks also, for the wild adventures in sense, to all those bold patrons who have helped create some of the most intoxicating, unique, alluring, custom-blended perfumes and "signature scents" on the planet! There is nothing like a fabulous scent to lift our human spirits, to immerse ourselves, at least temporarily, in JOY. Life can be very difficult sometimes, but the "right" scent is always captivating: for our enjoyment, for our senses, for our emotion, and for our inspiration.

Essense Parfumerie now open for its 46th summer season! Walk-in hours: Thursday ~ Saturday; Noon ~ 6 pm.Other days and early evening appointments also available.Private parties reserved in advance, with deposit.​Closed Sunday and Monday.

"I love that you take the ancient and the spiritual and put it in a bottle.That is way too cool!I just love these rare and magic things, it doesn’t get better than this.Tamsan is a divine alchemist."—Gretchen B., Bisbee, AZ

ESSENSE PARFUMERIE​AT ROCK RIDGE FARMoutside Meredith Village on the other side of Lake Waukewan bordering The Snake River GPS: 48 Waukewan ROAD New Hampton 03256